In-Person

Federation Leaders Dinner Series

Hosted by WunderGraph

Date

April 23, 2026

Location

Mastro’s Steakhouse - 399 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94102

What to expect

This dinner is for you if..

You have spent years building the infrastructure that powers millions of requests. You have led the transformation. You have seen what works and what breaks at scale.

Agenda

5:30pm - 5:45pm
Check in & Introductions
5:45pm - 6:00pm
Cocktails and networking
6:00pm - 6:30pm
Open discussions on topics
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Dinner is served
8:30pm
Closing remarks
9:00pm
Event concludes
Conversations that matter

Discussion topics

No introductory content. No beginner questions. Every topic assumes you have already shipped federation to production and are now optimizing, scaling, or rebuilding.

Scaling federated graphs past 100+ subgraphs

Schema governance that actually works

Performance optimization at the gateway layer

Migrating from monolithic GraphQL to federation

Handling breaking changes across distributed teams

Special Guests

Sviatoslav Novosiadlyi

Software Engineering Manager @ Rivian

Past attendees from:

Built for builders

Who should attend

This dinner is designed for the people who have been in the trenches. If your LinkedIn reads like a history of distributed systems challenges, you are in the right place.

Join us for an intimate dinner designed for meaningful conversations with fellow technology leaders. This exclusive setting offers a rare opportunity to build trusted relationships, exchange real-world perspectives, and explore what’s next in modern architecture and federation.

Platform Engineering Leaders

Principal Staff+ Engineers

Enterprise Architect Execs

Hosted by:

Field CTO
at WunderGraph

Field Marketing & Partner Manager
at WunderGraph

Vice President of Sales
at WunderGraph

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Each dinner is limited to twelve guests to ensure meaningful conversation.

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